1) a number of / numbers of + 可数名词复数 + 动词复数 可以理解为量词结构,a number of表示一些,numbers of表示大量。of后面的复数名词才是核心词,谓语动词因此总是复数 Manystudents arrived early, but only a number of them worked on their exercises...
As a creature, I eat; as a man, I read. Although one action is to meet the primary need of my body and the other is to satisfy the intellectual need of mind, they are in a way quite similar. 如此可见,长短句结合,抑扬顿挫,岂不爽哉?
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